HABIT

Related Subjects: Custom, Fashion, Manners, Order, Rule

1. Habit is thus the enormous fly­wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.—WILLIAM JAMES, Psychology
   

2. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.—HORACE MANN
   

3. Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

4. Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.—PUBLILI US SYRUS, Sententiae
   

5. How use doth breed a habit in a man!—SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
   

6. Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
   but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.—MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
   

7. The formation of right habits is essential to your permanent security. They diminish your chance of falling when assailed, and they augment your chance of recovery when overthrown.—JOHN TYNDALL, Fragments of Science